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Dr. David A. Grimes

The name goes back seemingly a gazillion years but that doesn’t prevent the Abortion Industry from dusting off Dr. David A. Grimes, “former Chief of the Abortion Surveillance Branch at the Centers for Disease Control (CDC),” as we are inevitably reminded.

But as NRLC once noted, Dr. Grimes “made pro-abortion advocacy a central element of his career for decades.” Moreover “during the time he worked for [the CDC] in the 1980s, his off-hours work at a local late-abortion facility sparked protest from some pro-life activists.”

There is nothing about abortion that bothers Grimes except any–any–limitation. Currently, he opposes a ban on dismemberment abortions, a gruesome, bloody “technique” in which the child is systematically torn apart until she bleeds to death.

Further back, in 2007, when the Supreme Court upheld the ban on partial-birth abortions, Grimes told ABC News, “From a public health perspective, today’s ruling will not advance the health of women and children in America.”

Now maybe it’s just me, but I would think it would advance the health of a living unborn child to ban partial-birth abortion, in which the child is almost entirely delivered before surgical scissors are jammed into her head and her brains vacuumed out like so much soot.

So, upping the ante, today Dr. Grimes wrote a piece for The Huffington Post under the headline “How Legal Abortion Helps American Families.”

A large swathe of it is off our single-issue focus, which means I cannot address in depth some of the stupid comments Grimes makes. Here are a couple of comments I can comment on. And, let me emphasize, hard as it is to believe, I am not making up Grimes’ comments.

While the abortion rate for African-American women is tragically high, it’s not high enough for Grimes. He laments that the Hyde Amendment places limitations on federal funding of abortion. Prior to its passage in 1976, the federal Medicaid program paid for 300,000 abortions a year. Conservative estimates are that there are well over one million people alive today because of the Hyde Amendment.

Then there is this: “Abortion was the single most important determinant of lowered neonatal mortality rates among African-Americans.” [The article is accompanied by a photo of a smiling African American family with mom, dad, and the prescribed two children, playing Monopoly.]

Think about that one for a minute. What could Grimes possibly mean?

He cites a study from Oregon that covered the years 1965 to 1975, in which legalization “was rapidly linked with important declines in premature births, ‘spontaneous’ fetal deaths, and infant deaths. New York City witnessed unprecedented decreases in the number and rate of infant deaths after the legalization of abortion.”

But a quick look at the abstract for the Oregon study tells us that “decreases in neonatal and postneonatal infant mortality were observed, but were indistinguishable from an ongoing trend toward improved infant health.” There was no comparable link for the New York City study, which is equally as old (it appeared in 1974 in Family Planning Perspectives, produced by the pro-abortion Guttmacher Institute).

But what a bizarre conclusion to draw. You kill, and you kill, and you kill. Then you trumpet that the more killing that takes place, the fewer premature births (or any other kind, for that matter).

However, Grimes sneaks in two other items at the end:

  1. “Similarly, abortion availability is inversely related to the percentage of children receiving social services”; and
  2. “Conversely, lack of access to abortion is related to child neglect and abuse.”

Get it? More abortions equals fewer kids “receiving social services” and less neglect and abuse. His first point is the usual racist drivel we’ve heard from pro-abortions for half a century, and his second point is a highly contentious conclusion.

In Grimes’ dystopia, “Unwanted births are associated with poor outcomes for both mother and child.”

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As always, Grimes has turned logic on its head and in the process assured us that “they” are better off dead.

Reprinted from National Right to Life News.